'Hang out our banner on the outer wall,
Our castle's strength will laugh the siege to scorn."

The Buckeye have hardly left enough of locofocoism in that state to serve for
seed another year.

"Hide me from myself, as Van Buren said when he heard of the vote of New
York."

THE ELECTION.
The returns from this county, we give below. They are collected by the Whig
Committee of Young Men, appointed for the purpose at a meeting of the Whigs
of Greenfield, early in October. They gallantly performed their task, and had
a complete list in this village, by eleven o'clock last night, which enables
us to present our readers with a substantial breakfast this morning.

The following are the results of yesterday's labors, so far as this county
is concerned.

ELECTORAL AND CONGRESSIONAL VOTE.

Electors.

1840.

1836.

Whig.

V.B.

Whig.

V.B.

Ashfield,

211

121

134

64

Bernardston,

110

82

62

23

Bucklank,

124

66

59

14

Charlemont,

153

56

Conway,

171

134

151

36

Colerain,

254

88

Deerfield,

239

127

110

66

Erving,

20

48

Gill,

63

78

30

56

Greenfield,

173

154

121

90

Hawley,

166

29

97

15

Heath,

115

40

92

13

Leverett,

74

92

57

47

Leydon,

63

54

Montaguo,

189

67

144

25

Monroe,

7

40

New Salem,

180

76

126

67

Northfield,

149

172

67

80

Orange,

159

142

55

47

Rowe,

104

41

54

23

Shelburne,

180

13

105

4

Shutesbury,

75

109

29

47

Sunderland,

130

16

95

75

Warwick,

117

116

77

60

Wendell,

100

88

69

16

Whately,

135

101

85

72

3461

2150

1819

878

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There is currently no available "Beginner" label. The following is the default level label: The towns in Franklin County, Massachusetts, voted for Whig candidate William Henry Harrison in the 1840 Presidential Election. The Greenfield "Gazette and Mercury" was blatantly in favor of Harrison and seems to gloat with the observation that "The Buckeye [Ohio] have hardly left enough of locofocoism in that state to serve for seed another year." The Locofocos were a radical wing of the Democratic Party. The statement is not quite correct since Harrison carried Ohio with only 54.3% of the popular vote. He carried the whole country with 53% of the popular vote but won with a landslide in the electoral college with 234 votes to Van Buren's 60 votes.